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“It’s a slog, writing a book,” I said, “getting things into place, getting the flow right.” I was complaining to my daughter, for the umpteenth time. It is a slog, especially when you’ve been collecting material and drafting bits since the...
From distant lands
If within the four seas one has a confidant, even the ends of the earth seem like next door. 海内存知己，天涯若比邻.
Since the pandemic, I’ve missed the daily, often incessant correspondence with scholars around the world that was central to creating...
Beach reading for the times we live in
The Cape Cod Light, even today “an active aid to navigation,” was commissioned by George Washington and established in 1797. The current brick building of 1857 had to be moved 500 feet (about 150 meters) inland because of cliff erosion.
On...
The Bar Parliaments of Finland
I learned about synchronicity from world historians. They love to debate how certain human developments—even one as fundamental as farming—took place at the same time in different places.
Today’s interest in third places is like that. The...
We all need a Happy Hour
“Why are third places always about alcohol?”
I’ve been asked that many times. Fortunately, it’s easy to answer: third places aren’t about alcohol. Yes, Ray Oldenburg wrote about pubs, taverns, and beer gardens. Yes, the TV Cheers comes...
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Coauthor of The Great Good Place II, expert on third places and green urbanism, CEO of #BerkshirePubGroup, research associate at Harvard Fairbank Center for Chinese Studies, and editor of the Encyclopedia of Community. Nuts about passenger rail.
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